The Experiences of Blended Training Implementation from Nutrition Goes to School (NGTS) Program in Indonesia

Abstract:
This study aimed to evaluate the implementation of a blended training for school teachers on adolescent health and nutrition. The training objective was to improve teachers’ knowledge, as well as their capacity to develop and implement action plans on school-based health and nutrition programs. Adolescents continue to face nutrition problems Article History: closely linked with poor eating behaviours and lack of physical activity. School has been identified as an effective venue for improving these problems. Many teachers’ training programs were reported on ncreasing the teachers’ roles in school health and nutrition program, but studies utilizing a blended training is lacking. This study used prepost intervention with mixed methods design. The pparticipants of this blended training
were secondary school teachers who enrolled in a five-phase Nutrition Goes to School (NGTS) training on school-based nutrition promotion program, comprising in-service learning and on-thejob training for ten months. The participants decreased throughout the training to 114 participants completed the whole training. Out of 114 participants, 25 (22%) passed this NGTS blended training. Participants’ knowledge on health and nutrition improved as shown in pre-test median
score of 60 and post-test median score of 80 (p